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Camera Image Quality and Tuning Engineer
GoogleLondon, UK2+ years
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a specialized field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP, etc.), or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working in image processing, image quality evaluation, camera tuning or other camera technical environments, or an advanced degree.
- Experience in programming language C, C++, or Python.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, a related technical field.
- Experience in developing integration of new autofocus(AF) hardware components in consumer products, autofocus algorithm, tuning, and optimization.
- Experience in executive characteristics, optics, and image signal processing of the mobile imaging system, and their influence on final image and video quality.
- Experience in performance validation for Laser Detection Autofocus (LDAF) and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) modules.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate in a cross-functional team environment.
- Passion for photography technology.
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.Responsibilities
- Evaluate the architectural autofocus relative design and algorithm for digital photography and tune the Autofocus algorithm, support Pixel phone and contribute to raise the bar of quality and innovation with Pixel cameras.
- Understand and work with other stakeholders to improve Autofocus algorithms.
- Communicate results and implications to a cross-functional team, and work cross-functionally to optimize the performance under hardware constraints(VCM, lens, sensor, OIS, TOF) constraints.
- Design and produce subjective and objective laboratory tests and fielded test methods to analyze problems, experiment with image quality, behavior and performance.
- Work with the System on a Chip(SOC) Architecture and relative algorithm team to understand and improve the architecture and use cases.
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